This is a form of Front Wrap Cross Carry (FWCC) that you can do with a short wrap. FWCC usually requires your base size, whereas you can use a base-3 length wrap for this.

• The semi-front wrap cross carry (semi-fwcc) is very similar to the hip cross carry but has some fundamental differences.
• The semi fwcc still has two passes over the baby for extra support, but whereas with the hip cross carry baby sits into the pouches with one leg through each pass, with the fabric going under their legs. In a semi fwcc both passes go over the top of baby’s legs.
• It is relatively easy to breast or chest feed in.
• In order to fully tighten you may have to ‘chase’ slack right round through the passes until it reaches the tails and you can pull it out of the knot. This can take a bit of practice to get right with a heavy child but worth the effort
• You can finish this carry with a slipknot or some rings for extra final adjustment to the carry.
• Unlike the Coolest hip cross carry it is not poppable ( you are not able to easily take your child in and out of the carry without having to do some major re-tying).
• It is a front carry rather, rather than the coolest hip cross carry which can be worn towards the front but will always be a bit off centre.
• It is similar to the front reinforced torso carry, which has a torso pass in place of a cross pass as the second reinforcing pass over baby.

Here’s our step by step guide to tying the semi- FWCC

Start with the wrap over one shoulder.

Bring the wrap across your back.

Bring the wrap across your front,

round your back again and over the other shoulder.

Tighten the wrap over your shoulders so that the bunched pass just has enough space for baby's legs to feed though.

Guide baby's legs through the pass.

Baby sits on the pass with it running from kneepit to kneepit.

Pull the top rail of the pass up baby's back.

Lift and pull the wrap to remove slack.

Tighten strand by strand.

Do this on both sides.

Take your arm under the second shoulder pass.

Bring that pass down, still keeping the tension.

That pass goes under baby's leg and round to the front.

Bring the pass up towards the other shoulder. This is called a cross pass.

Secure the cross pass with a slip knot

"Over, Under, Through"

"Under, Over, Through"

Check below for more guides to making slipknots.

Tighten the carry by pulling slack down through the tail, strand by strand.

Done!